The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Join Ann Bookman and fellow poets for a powerful reading and conversation exploring how poetry gives voice to grief and fosters resilience. Through personal and collective loss, these poets navigate sorrow with language that heals, remembers, and uplifts. This event invites reflection on the role of poetry in times of mourning and recovery.

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Please join us for a poetry reading by Ann Bookman, Partridge Boswell and Daniel Johnson with an introduction by Tom Daley.

This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom.

Please sign up ahead of time because there is limited space .

If you show up after the start time of the event you may jeopardize your seat.

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Ann Bookman, a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, has published poems in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Chronogram, and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. In 2012, she published a chapbook, Point of Attachment, with Finishing Line Press. Her first full collection, Blood Lines, was published by Kelsay Books in the spring of 2022. She currently serves as Poet-in-Residence at the John D. O Bryant High School in Roxbury where she works with students on their creative writing projects and assists in the production of their literary magazine, RUBIX.

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I will be giving an in-person reading from Blood Lines at Temple Israel in Boston, sponsored by TILLI (Temple Israel's Lifelong Learning Institute) for the Spring 2024 Lunch and Learn Lecture Series. For information and to register, click this link.

I am excited to be giving an in-person reading from my new collection, Blood Lines at Belmont Books in celebration of National Poetry Month. I will be joined by poets Sara Epstein and Alexis Ivy at 79 Leonard Street, Belmont, MA. Please register here.

As part of the New Gallery Concert Series, featuring new music and contemporary visual art, I am truly honored that the composer, Lainie Fefferman will be using one of my poems as the basis for a new piece. The theme of the concert is “Legacy,” focusing on the intersection of past and present through a Jewish lens.

I am honored to be reading with Mary Beth Hines and Alfred Nicol as part of the fall reading series of the New England Poetry Club. Please join me at the historic Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA (Registration, click here.)

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Featured readers: Ann Bookman, Rebecca Brock, Lorraine Henrie Lins, and Majorie Maddox.

Guest readers: Laurie Kuntz, Rose Marie Boehm, Lisa St John, Dale Cotttingham, Mark Saba, Peggy Gerber, Peter Crowley, Alfred Encarnacion, and Glen Mazis.

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Poetry Reading with Athar Pavis, Ann Bookman, and Sara Epstein

Poetry Night with Ann Bookman, Julia Lisella, and Amanda Shea

April 10th at 7:00 pm

In-person at Wellesley Books

82 Central St,

Wellesley MA

RSVP at wellesleybooks.com or 781-431-1160

Please join the poetry panel with Ann Bookman (Blood Lines), Irena Klepfisz (Her Birth and Later Years) and Joy Ladin (Shehkinah Speaks), moderated by Judith Rosenbaum, CEO of the Jewish Women's Archive.

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Hybrid Event with Open Mic

In person: Roslindale House, Community Room, 120 Poplar Street, Roslindale MA

Zoom Link: contact hguran@aol.com

Sponsored by Sharsheret and Ritualwell

Monday, December 19th at 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Zoom

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Sponsored by Jamaica Pond Poets

Friday, December 9th at 7:30 p.m.

In person at the Loring-Greenough House

12 South Street, Monument Square in Jamaica Plain

Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Friday, November 4th, 7:00 pm

FREE and Virtually on Zoom*

* Contact host Richard Waring at rwring@nejm.org for the Zoom link

Hybrid Event: In person and Zoom*

Readers: Ann Bookman, George Kalogeris and Julia Lisella

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In-person or via Zoom

Readers: Robin Dellabough, B. Fulton Jennes, Beth Morris, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, and HVWC Board Member Ann Bookman.

We celebrated the publications of three students and one Board Member of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.

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Poetry Reading
Monday, July 18, 2022 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Wellfleet Public Library, 55 West Main Street

Readers: Susan Berlin and Ann Bookman

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series
Monday, June 27, 2022 7:00 PM EDT/Zoom

Readers: Ann Bookman and Jennifer Martelli

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